Guanethidine effects on the guinea pig vas deferens are antagonized by the blockers of calcium-activated potassium conductance, apamin, methylene blue, and quinine.

abstract：:Macrophage production of growth factors for fibroblasts, in particular platelet-derived growth factor B [PDGF(B)] and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), is thought to be central to the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis. In a search for anti-inflammatory agents that might prevent this process, we asked whethe...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Wangoo A,Haynes AR,Sutcliffe SP,Sorooshian M,Shaw RJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of beta2-adrenoceptors with the selective beta2 agonist procaterol caused a biphasic decrease in cell surface M2 muscarinic receptor number in human embryonic lung 299 cells when measured with the hydrophilic antagonist [3H]N-methylscopolamine. In contrast, total muscarinic receptor number, measured with t...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Rousell J,Haddad EB,Mak JC,Webb BL,Giembycz MA,Barnes PJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured murine hepatoma 1c1c7 cells were treated with either the actin filament-disrupting drug cytochalasin D or the microtubule inhibitors colchicine and nocadazole (NOC) to assess the role of the cytoskeleton in the process of cytochrome P450 Cyp1a-1 induction. Indirect fluorescence analyses demonstrated that micr...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Schöller A,Hong NJ,Bischer P,Reiners JJ Jr

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of cyanomorpholinyldoxorubicin, morpholinyldoxorubicin, doxorubicin, and Actinomycin D were studied on purified mouse leukemia (L1210) DNA topoisomerases I and II. DNA unwinding and cross-linking were also studied. It was found that 1) morpholinyldoxorubicin, cyanomorpholinyldoxorubicin, and Actinomycin D (...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Wassermann K,Markovits J,Jaxel C,Capranico G,Kohn KW,Pommier Y

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of mobilization of intracellular Ca2+ in the adrenergic-stimulated cAMP accumulation in rat pinealocytes was investigated with thapsigargin, an agent that inhibits endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase. It was found that although thapsigargin alone had no effect on the basal cAMP accumulation, it potentiated the ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Ho AK,Ogiwara T,Chik CL

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway plays a pivotal role in intracellular signaling, and this cascade may impinge on cAMP response elements (CREs) of target genes. Both the MAPK pathway and chromogranin A expression may be activated by cytosolic calcium influx, and calcium-dependent signals map onto th...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Tang K,Wu H,Mahata SK,O'Connor DT

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated various nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitors for their affinity and selectivity toward the three human isoenzymes in radioligand binding experiments. Therefore, we developed the new radioligand [(3)H]2-amino-4-picoline to measure binding of these compounds to the three human NO synthase (NOS) iso...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Boer R,Ulrich WR,Klein T,Mirau B,Haas S,Baur I

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PDE4A11 is a novel cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase that is conserved in humans, mouse, rat, pig, and bat. Exon-1(4A11) encodes its unique, 81 amino acid N-terminal region. Reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction performed across the splice junction, plus identification of expressed sequence tags, identifies PD...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Wallace DA,Johnston LA,Huston E,MacMaster D,Houslay TM,Cheung YF,Campbell L,Millen JE,Smith RA,Gall I,Knowles RG,Sullivan M,Houslay MD

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose utilization in isolated islets of Langerhans of the rat was determined by measuring the conversion of [5-3H]glucose (10 mM) to 3H2O. The alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists clonidine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine in the presence of the alpha 1-adrenoceptor antagonist prazosin and the beta-adrenoceptor antagonist ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Laychock SG

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine use poses a major health problem not only because of the dependence it causes but also because of the generation of life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias following overdose. Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of action of cocaine, therefore, remains a critical step in developing treatment for cocaine addictio...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Premkumar LS

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Camptothecin (CPT) is an effective chemotherapeutic agent for treatment of patients with cancer. The mechanisms underlying CPT-mediated responses in cancer cells are not fully understood. MicroRNA (miRNA) play important roles in tumorigenesis and drug sensitivity. However, the interaction between camptothecin and miRN...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Zeng CW,Zhang XJ,Lin KY,Ye H,Feng SY,Zhang H,Chen YQ

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the efficiencies with which human alpha 1-adrenergic receptor (AR) subtypes activate inositol phosphate (InsP) formation and increase intracellular Ca2+ in transfected cell lines. Expression of human alpha 1a-, alpha 1b-, and alpha 1d-AR cDNAs under the repressible control of anhydrotetracycline in human e...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Theroux TL,Esbenshade TA,Peavy RD,Minneman KP

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3H-Neurokinin A (3H-NKA) with high specific activity (75 Ci/mmol) was synthesized to study NKA (NK-2)-binding sites on membrane preparations of various tissues in the rat, including brain, spinal cord, duodenum, vas deferens, and ileum. The binding capacity of 3H-NKA (0.9 nM) was very low in membrane preparations of d...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Bergström L,Beaujouan JC,Torrens Y,Saffroy M,Glowinski J,Lavielle S,Chassaing G,Marquet A,D'Orleans-Juste P,Dion S

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorogenic sulfhydryl probe 7-diethylamino-3-(4'-maleimidylphenyl)-4-methylcoumarin (CPM) (1-50 nM) is used to characterize the functional role and location of highly reactive thiol groups on the ryanodine-sensitive Ca2+ release channel complex [i.e., ryanodine receptors (RyRs)] of skeletal and cardiac junctional...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Liu G,Abramson JJ,Zable AC,Pessah IN

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-permeable, noncompetitive inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3)-receptor inhibitor 2-aminoethoxydiphenyl borane (2-APB) has been widely used to probe for IP3-receptor involvement in calcium signaling pathways. However, a number of recent studies in different cell types revealed other sites of action of 2-APB...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Braun FJ,Aziz O,Putney JW Jr

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is known to be a mitogenic factor for vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), fibroblasts, and endothelial cells. In the current study, we describe possible intracellular mechanisms by which LDL elicits its mitogenic effects. Stimulation of VSMCs with LDL resulted in a pertussis-toxin (PTX)...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Sachinidis A,Seewald S,Epping P,Seul C,Ko Y,Vetter H

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endocannabinoids anandamide and 2-arachidonyl glycerol (2-AG) bind to G protein-coupled central and peripheral cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2, respectively. Due to the relatively high expression of the CB2 isotype on peripheral immune cells, it has been hypothesized that this receptor mediates the immunosuppres...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Gonsiorek W,Lunn C,Fan X,Narula S,Lundell D,Hipkin RW

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Walker 256 rat carcinoma cell line (WR) has been shown to be resistant to a broad spectrum of bifunctional nitrogen mustards (NM) in cell culture. The parent cell line (WS) from which the WR cells were selected retains marked sensitivity to this class of drugs. Karyotype analysis showed that the parent WS had a chro...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Tew KD,Wang AL

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig lung microsomes converted arachidonic acid (AA) to two classes of cytochrome P450 (P450)-dependent metabolites, 16- through 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids [(16-20)-OH-AA] and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs). The rate of formation of (16-20)-OH-AA was approximately 3-fold higher in microsomes from beta-na...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Knickle LC,Bend JR

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dantrolene was recently identified as a novel inhibitor of the plasmodial surface anion channel (PSAC), an unusual ion channel on Plasmodium falciparum-infected human red blood cells. Because dantrolene is used clinically, has a high therapeutic index, and has desirable chemical synthetic properties, it may be a lead ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kang M,Lisk G,Hollingworth S,Baylor SM,Desai SA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific toxic and biochemical responses elicited by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in human thymic epithelial (TE) cells in culture are mediated by the TCDD receptor protein. Characterization of the physicochemical properties of the TCDD receptor in cytosol fractions from cultured human TE cells indicates...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Cook JC,Greenlee WF

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitination plays a crucial role in regulating protein turnover. Here we show that ubiquitination regulates the stability of the MDR1 gene product, P-glycoprotein, thereby affecting the functions of this membrane transporter that mediates multidrug resistance. We found that P-glycoprotein was constitutively ubiquit...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Zhang Z,Wu JY,Hait WN,Yang JM

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonnaturally occurring L-configuration nucleoside analog, L-beta-5-bromovinyl-(2-hydroxymethyl)-1,3-(dioxolanyl)uracil (L-BVOddU) selectively inhibited varicella-zoster virus growth in human embryonic lung (HEL) 299 cell culture with an EC(50) of 0.055 microM, whereas no inhibition of CEM and HEL 299 cell growth or ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Li L,Dutschman GE,Gullen EA,Tsujii E,Grill SP,Choi Y,Chu CK,Cheng YC

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large conductance, Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels are believed to underlie interburst intervals and, thus, contribute to the control of hormone release from neurohypophysial terminals. Because ethanol inhibits the release of vasopressin and oxytocin, we studied its effects on large conductance, Ca(2+)-activated K+ chann...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Dopico AM,Lemos JR,Treistman SN

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maurotoxin (MTX) is a potent blocker of human voltage-activated Kv1.2 and intermediate-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels, hIKCa1. Because its blocking affinity on both channels is similar, although the pore region of these channels show only few conserved amino acids, we aimed to characterize the bindin...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Visan V,Fajloun Z,Sabatier JM,Grissmer S

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The μ-opioid receptor gene undergoes extensive alternative splicing to generate an array of splice variants. One group of splice variants excludes the first transmembrane (TM) domain and contains six TM domains. These 6TM variants are essential for the action of a novel class of analgesic drugs, including 3-iodobenzoy...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Zhang T,Xu J,Pan YX

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleoside analog 5-azacytidine is an archetypical drug for epigenetic cancer therapy, and its clinical effectiveness has been demonstrated in the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). However, therapy resistance in patients with MDS/AML remains a challenging issue. Mem...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Hummel-Eisenbeiss J,Hascher A,Hals PA,Sandvold ML,Müller-Tidow C,Lyko F,Rius M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were carried out to elucidate the mechanism whereby thyroid hormone (T3) induces NADPH:cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase (P450R) mRNA in rat liver in vivo. Northern blot analysis revealed that T3 treatment increases unspliced liver nuclear P450R RNA 4-fold within 8 h and that this induction precedes the induction...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Li HC,Liu D,Waxman DJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:bTREK-1 K(+) channels set the resting membrane potential of bovine adrenal zona fasciculata (AZF) cells and function pivotally in the physiology of cortisol secretion. Adrenocorticotropic hormone controls the function and expression of bTREK-1 channels through signaling mechanisms that may involve cAMP and downstream ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Enyeart JA,Liu H,Enyeart JJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance-associated protein 2 (MRP2) transports glutathione conjugates, glucuronide conjugates, and sulfated conjugates of bile acids. In the present study, we examined the role of charged amino acids in the transmembrane domains of rat Mrp2, conserved among MRP families, using the isolated membrane vesicl...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Ito K,Suzuki H,Sugiyama Y

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00